I‘m not exactly sure who made character-driven epic fantasy a thing. Certainly, the popularity of GRR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series might have done a lot to turn the tide from the old-fashioned epic fantasy (good vs. evil, chosen hero, ridiculously deranged villain) to the shades-of-grey, good-guys-are-bad-guys-too epics of today. I follow the …
My upcoming novel, Birthplace, is the first book in a series about werebeasts from Filipino folklore: the aswang. It is also, incidentally, the first book I’ve written that isn’t in the epic fantasy genre…it is paranormal YA. A sort of long, kind of bloody, definitely M-rated paranormal YA. The working title of this book was “My Anti-Twilight.” I’ll leave …
This is a scheduled blog post. I’m supposed to be out this weekend, exploring the Purcell mountains and the Okanagan with my family, so if a bear hasn’t eaten me or something yet, I should have turned 30 by now. 30 is a crazy number for me. I dealt with a lot of depression in …
In case you haven’t figured it out by now, my blog mixes my introverted, writer-lifestyle with my thirst for adventures and exploration. In my mind, these two interests do not meld as easily. Most days, I feel like Bilbo Baggins… “Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to …
I’m hesitating a little bit about this blog post, because I feel like as soon as I post it somebody will jab me with a spork while saying, “Really, K? REALLY? YOU know how to write well-rounded characters?” I mean, it’s not like I have a process for it. I used to stumble on these templates, …
